I know it's not what you want to hear, but here's how I recommend adjusting a 34 PICT carb. (Almost a required procedure if you are running a 009 distributor) . . .

Step 1, Unhook it and remove it.

Step 2, Drain all the gas out of it.

Step 3, Take all of the screws out of the top of it and out of the accelerator pump and put them in a safe place.

Step 4, Toss the rest of it in the garbage.

Step 5, Buy an adapter plate and a new Brosol 30-31

Step 6, Bolt the adapter to the new 30-31 carb

Step 7, Void the warranty on the 30-31 carb (if it even had one) by tightening up all the screws that the factory left loose (or just wait about 3 months and when it stops running, tighten up the two remaining screws and try to find the screws you saved from the 34 and replace all the missing ones).  While you're at it, tighten up the idle cut-off solenoid . . . they probably left it loose too.  (It's an EXCELENT Carb, but folks in Brazil must not know how to tighten screws!)

Step 8, Bolt the adapter and carb onto the intake and hook it up.

Step 9 . . . Close the decklid and go for drive!  Well, you might need to adjust the idle speed with the big adjustment screw on the left side of the carb first, but all of them I've installed worked great right out of the box (at least until the screws started falling out of them).

I've personally NEVER been able to get a 34 PICT tuned right.  They were engineered by VW to work with a specific grade of gas, at a specific compression ratio and with a specific advance curve built into the distributor.  Slightly change any piece of that puzzle and a 34 is plagued with flat spots.

There are a few folks who swear by the "34" but the ones I know of are spending time in a nervous hospital somewhere and taking massive amounts of some type of anti-depressant. I have thrown ALL of my "34s" away and I've been able to cut way back on my medication but I can't completely drop it because of the permenant damage done by that d*#%! carbureator.

Take Zen's advise and GET RID OF IT BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!!!

                                                                      :cool:

I left out a step (just figured this one last weekend) . . .

3A - Remove the choke element and put it with the screws. (You're going to need it in about a year when your Brosol choke element shorts out and kills your engine)



Edited By Zen on 1081471010

Have someone hold the pedal to the floor and make sure it's pulling the throttle all the way open.  Also make sure that after 4 or 5 minutes your choke is fully opened.  Those are two common problems that will rob top end power.

If it's your clutch, when you hit a hill, the engine will speed up but the car won't, or the engine will hold it's speed and the car will slow down.

Man did that Brosol 30-31 work good. Didn't hardly have to adjust it either  Thanks for that suggestion Zen.

Where did you purchase the Brosol 30/31?
Ron

that's Kool, Once I see if I can get this bug running, see how the factory carb will do, Daughter was in a Girls softball tournament when the Bug-A-Palüza was going on, me & wife strolled through, it looked there was a lot of parts for sale. Can't wait for another show to go through somewhere close by.
Thanks
Ron